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Article: In Search of Human Nature.(Book Review)
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- Adolescence
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- March 22, 2003
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CLARK, Mary E. In Search of Human Nature. New York: Routledge, 2002. 576pp. $31.95 (p).
What is wrong with the West's "scientific" picture of what and who we are? Was Thomas Hobbes right to sum up human life as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"? In this work, biologist Mary Clark delves into the roots of human nature, offering a timely reevaluation of the basic attributes all humans share. In Search of Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: biological, historical and sociological. Clark takes the most recent data from disparate fields--paleontology, primatology, ethology, genetics, neurosciences, ...